family violence

New project on DFV and tenancy rights launched in Brisbane

A new project from Tenants Queensland was launched yesterday to support culturally and linguistically diverse women to know their tenancy rights when facing family violence.The project includes messages in six languages with information about tenancy and support in audio files, easily accessible for CALD women living across the state.The Wire’s Eduardo Jordan attended the launch. …

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Intervention Order fails LGBTQI+ victim survivors

A Victoria report on LGBTQ+ survivors of family violence details barriers to justice as the group engages with mainstream intervention order systems. The report attributes heteronormativity as a barrier to justice where notions surrounding family violence are typically characterised through a male-offender and female-survivor lens. Half of the LGBTQ+ victim-survivor report participants were identified as …

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